Water-closet seat



(No Model.)

L LIPP WATER GLOSET SEAT.

Patented June 6, 1893.

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LOUIS LIPP, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

WATER-CLOSET SEAT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 499,026, dated J une 6, 1893.

Application iiled January 3l.,` 1893. Serial No. 460,359. (No inodel.)

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS LTPP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Water-Closet Seats and Similar Structures; and Ido declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the iigures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification. A

This invention relates to construction of woodenv structures where a number of smaller boards are joined together edgewise to form a larger one, which larger i one is then to be perforated or contains a large opening designed for some special purpose. The particular kind of structures here understood g will be more distinctly referred to in the following speciiication which contains a full description of my invention, the same being also particularly pointed out in the claim at the end thereof and its construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings in Which- Figure l is a top, Fig. 2 an under side, and Fig. 3, a central longitudinal section of a Water-closet seat embodying my invention.

. I have in view here particularly the con-- struction of water-closet seats, but any similar device containing a large opening, like cisternor man-hole covers and where they are made of wood, falls within the scope of my invention.

The necessary width in water-closet seats is generally attained by gluing a number of boards together as shown in Figs. l, and 2, where boards 4, 5, and 6, are joined together to form the seat complete.

For the sake of appearance it is desirable that the grain of all the individual pieces should run in the same direction, whereby however the grain or longitudinal fibers of pieces 6, are very much shorter, which for obvious reasons lessens very much the strength and stability of these pieces. Where such pieces are Subj ect to moisture, they necessarily warp and in their weakened structural condition are not able to withstand the strain imposed by such warping and often crack, ruining thereby the whole seat. This makes it necessary that these seats are strengthened in a manner to protect their weaker portions, which is usually done by cleats, strips, orbolts connected to and sunk into the wood of the seat, running lengthwise across the grain thereof. The objection to this procedure is the fact that the ends of such strips are visible at the edges of 4the seats and by reason of the different grain mar their appearance. As afurther objection the edge of the seat becomes soon uneven, the ends of theV strips or cleats protruding in the course of time beyond the seat, by reason of the-different degrees of shrinkage between the grain of endwood and long-wood which meet here. This defect I overcome by strengthening only the short pieces 6, by means of strips 8,1itting into dove-tailed grooves 7, at their under sides and by using the long pieces tand 5, to hide the ends of such strips. These latter are tightly fitted and glued into place first before pieces 4, and 5, are connected to the shorter pieces, ThusI strengthen the seat without disturbing the grain on its top or edges and no joints, or grain run ningin different directions are visible.

I claim- A wooden Waterbloset seat when constructed of a number of shorterand longer pieces of wood as (i, 6, 4, and 5, andthe grain of which at its top and edges should all be intact and run in one directiomhaving its shorter pieces 6, strengthened4 by strips 8, dove-tailed into their under side crosswise to their grain and having its longer pieces 4, and 5, connected to these shorter pieces and left intact, whereby they hide the ends of strips 8.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS LIPP.

Witnesses:

SAMUEL' M. QUINN, C. SPENGEL. 

